# How can I add a pre-transcode delay / buffer?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-add-a-pre-transcode-delay-buffer/54836>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** transcoder\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-add-a-pre-transcode-delay-buffer/54836 "2020-03-20T00:26:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ben\_Jun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Ben\_Jun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ben_Jun)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-add-a-pre-transcode-delay-buffer/54836/1 "2020-03-20T00:26:56Z")

</div>

How can I increase the input buffering for an incoming stream, or otherwise add a fixed time delay (something between 15-45s), before the stream is transcoded?

Our video application has late arriving overlays. So this delay needs to be on the “input” side of things (pre-overlay application).

I believe there is an 8s input buffer but the impression I had was that this was primarily for handling jitter.

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-add-a-pre-transcode-delay-buffer/54836)._